Annapolis, 2015: Leutrell M. Osborne, Sr. is an inspirational leader and recognized as a national and international security expert, who was hired by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for over 26 years. He has distinguished himself as a Counter Intelligence (CI) expert who has supervised CIA agents and assets in over 30 countries and traveled to more than 100 foreign cities in over five different continents. Mr. Osborne was the first African American CIA Case Officer (C/O) to desegregate the management in two different CIA entities: the CIA’s Near East Asian (NEA) Division in l982 and the Office of Communication Security Division (COMSEC) in 1976. As the CIA’s tenth African American Case Officer, he was the only Case Officer in the history of CIA to also serve more than six years also as a CIA Communications Security (COMSEC) officer after becoming a Clandestine CO.

Mr. Osborne continues to perform as is an inspirational leader and transformation agent, now leading a consulting, risk management and staffing company, The Osborne Group 007 (TOG).

"I was an analyst in a the Directorate of Intelligence and I was a clandestine Officer in the Directorate of Operations and seldom did the two worlds meet. I collected intelligence and countered adversary threats and intelligence operations.Be assured that I will challenge anyone that claims there is "secret information" that can justify Covert Action (CA) intelligence operations. My paradigm is that such intelligence justification is based on "ego." There are always many clandestine pathways in play by many nation-states. "The USA Government under the leadership of the FBI for the past 60 years has conducted a "clandestine domestic dirty tricks program" which includes acts of injustice, entrapment, lies, propaganda and assassination against selected USA citizens and Native Americans (NA)."--Leutrell"Mike" Osborne, Sr.

BLACK MAN IN THE CIA, by Leutrell "Mike" Osborne, Sr., (2012)

CIA? THINK YOU KNOW?Learn his secrets.A young man grows up in Washington D.C. seeking adventure and burning with desire to achieve great things. He finds the keys to making his dreams come true are with the Central Intelligence Agency. With his wife and life partner Rose he strikes out on his journey that is remarkable, dangerous as well as fulfilling.

This is his story. He tells it in his own words; through the prism of his unique life experiences, the Black Man in the CIA.

He worked for the CIA, one of the 17 Departments and Agencies of the National Intelligence Communities in particular, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Cold War years. Leutrell M. Osborne Sr. (Mike) tells his story to document the former Spy Manager’s history in the CIA while providing insights for others to understand his rise to become a spy manager supervising CIA agents and assets in over 30 countries, and in addition to that also becoming the only spy manager who also has gained six years of experience in Information Assurance (IA).

Leutrell Osborne began his CIA career as a still photographer, paygrade G-3, in October 1957. (19, 23) He left the Agency in 1984 as a GS-12 operations officer. (140) Black Man in the CIA tells the story of his upbringing and his adventures in the Agency.

Osborne describes himself as "a light-skinned black man" (31) and the illegitimate son of a mother who worked for the CIA at the National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC). He writes that he had wanted to be a "spy manager" since he was 12. (1) Osborne got married and joined the Agency right out of high school. By 1963 he was working in the European Branch mail room and had decided he wanted to become a case officer. With the support of several supervisors, he completed operations training in 1969, (72) before he graduated from college.After refusing a tour in Vietnam (91) and declining to have anything to do with covert action (85-8), Osborne was assigned overseas, where he describes recruiting agents. He also had various assignments at Headquarters, including counterintelligence, counterterrorism, the Office of Equal Opportunity, and Communications Security (COMSEC). He returned to the Directorate of Operations for his final tour working on Libyan matters.

In Black Man in the CIA, Osborne views the Agency through an African-American's eyes and is candid in describing what his race meant to his career. For example, during his first assignment as a case officer, he "encountered some serious discrimination from...the Chief of Station...[who] had a profound impact on [his] career... making [him] stay in grade for eleven years." (99-102) But in spite of this atmosphere, he says he "achieved significant accomplishments as a Case Officer in Latin America." (110) Yet these problems persisted, as he notes, when he was assigned to COMSEC duties and his "superior, Red Neck, was determined to cast aspersions on [his] work." With regard to his final assignment, he writes that "there were some serious mistakes made by the Division. It seemed clear I was being set up to take the fall...." (134) Despite all of these difficulties, Osborne concludes that in 26 years with the CIA, "I achieved my dream as a CIA spy manager." (142)

ENERGY, INSPIRATION, FOCUS, DISCERNMENT

Black Man in the CIA: An Autobiography, by Leutrell M. Osborne, Sr. ([Temple, TX?]: Jongleur Music Book Publishing, 2012), 148 pp., no index.Leutrell Osborne began his CIA career as a still photographer, paygrade G-3, in October 1957. (19, 23) He left the Agency in 1984 as a GS-12 operations officer. (140) Black Man in the CIA tells the story of his upbringing and his adventures in the Agency.Osborne describes himself as “a light-skinned black man” (31) and the illegitimate son of a mother who worked for the CIA at the National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC). He writes that he had wanted to be a “spy manager” since he was 12. (1) Osborne got married and joined the Agency right out of high school. By 1963 he was working in the European Branch mail room and had decided he wanted to become a case officer. With the support of several supervisors, he completed operations training in 1969, (72) before he graduated from college. After refusing a tour in Vietnam (91) and declining to have anything to do with covert action (85–8), Osborne was assigned overseas, where he describes recruiting agents. He also had various assignments at Headquarters, including counterintelligence, counterterrorism, the Office of Equal Opportunity, and Communications Security (COMSEC). He returned to the Directorate of Operations for his final tour working on Libyan matters.In Black Man in the CIA, Osborne views the Agency through an African-American’s eyes and is candid in describing what his race meant to his career. For example, during his first assignment as a case officer, he “encountered some serious discrimination from…the Chief of Station…[who] had a profound impact on [his] career… making [him] stay in grade for eleven years.” (99–102) But in spite of this atmosphere, he says he “achieved significant accomplishments as a Case Officer in Latin America.” (110) Yet these problems persisted, as he notes, when he was assigned to COMSEC duties and his “superior, Red Neck, was determined to cast aspersions on [his] work.” With regard to his final assignment, he writes that “there were some serious mistakes made by the Division. It seemed clear I was being set up to take the fall….” (134) Despite all of these difficulties, Osborne concludes that in 26 years with the CIA, “I achieved my dream as a CIA spy manager.” (142)During the 25 years since he left the Agency, Osborne writes, “I have increased my core competency talents, knowing I can lead both the Central Intelligence and the National Security Agencies…toward better solutions.” (144) Black Man in the CIA might serve as an inspiration to others with childhood dreams of intelligence service.

BIO: Leutrell “Mike” Osborne joined the CIA in 1957, and became one of the first African American Case Officers (C/O). He directed CIA agents and assets in over 24 countries on three continents. Mr. Osborne is the only C/O to also serve as a Communications Security Officer (COMSEC Officer) for over six years. Mr. Osborne resigned his post at CIA in 1984 to pursue private sector opportunities. He returned to government service in 1989, where he oversaw Small Business Administration contracting programs for the Office of Personnel Management.

In 1994, Mr. Osborne retired from Federal Government after 31 years of service. He then returned to private sector advising small businesses on the acquisition of government contracts. In addition, he began an active schedule of personal appearances, radio interviews and television commentary. He and his wife, Rose, have been married for more than 50 years and have five children. Mr. Osborne lives in Annapolis, Maryland and spends his time with family, working on his memoirs, writing fiction and providing inspirational and transformational leadership speeches to audiences throughout the country.

As CHIEF VISIONARY OFFICER of THE OSBORNE GROUP (TOG) and the Founder and Managing Director of the Dark Operative Series, LLC, Mr. Osborne is available for speaking engagements and consulting opportunities. He overcame many economic, educational and discriminatory challenges to become one of the first African American Case Officers in the Central Intelligence Agency. As a Case Officer, Mr. Osborne had the opportunity to recruit and manage spies, travel the world and helped fight the Cold War. After transferring to COMSEC in 1976, Mr. Osborne became involved with the higher echelons of the science and technology of counter intelligence. Throughout his career, Mr. Osborne displayed a passion to continually analyze and improve processes to achieve more optimal results. In 1984, Mr. Osborne took these transformation skills into the private sector as an independent business owner and private consultant. After coming to understand the challenges facing small businesses, Mr. Osborne was hired by the Office of Personnel Management to oversee its small business contracting programs.

As an inspirational speaker and expert in national security, Mr. Osborne speaks and consults with leaders of industry and government, young people aspiring to careers in the agencies and departments of the intelligence community. Audiences find Mr. Osborne’s presentations engaging, motivating, informative and humorous. He has also appeared on numerous radio and television programs speaking on problems related to security and countering national and foreign threats. Mr. Osborne applies his expertise in government contracting with the 16 intelligence agencies and departments that are now led by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) www.odni.gov. He couples his five years experience of government small business contracting leadership with his extensive private sector business experience to assist companies of all sizes to market and improve government contracts. As a expert in sales, security and counter intelligence, Mr. Osborne enables business owners leaders increase production and revenues in the commercial, government and transnational markets.

SPY MANAGER SAYSSIGNS MISSED IN BENGHAZI ATTACK Feb. 2013, BALTIMORE – Several signs that the attack on the American Embassy in Benghazi, Libya was coming were either ignored or dismissed, says former CIA Spy Manager Leutrell Mike Osborne. Mr. Osborne, who was one of the nation’s first African American CIA Spy Managers , adds that instead of public bickering over who said what on the morning talk shows, the emphasis should be on improving communication lines between the teams in the field and the State Department in Washington. His comments, which appear in Osborne’s new weekly political column, were in reference to the media and congressional bashing received by Susan Rice, United States Ambassador to the United Nations after she told the public the attacks were spontaneous. The former CIA Spy Manager says Congress is focused on the wrong issues when it comes to the attack. “Instead of playing politics and blooding the head of a fine public servant, Congress should be more concerned about how the signs that an attack was coming. In the end, who really cares what was said on any talk show? We know now that she (Rice) said what she was ordered to say in an effort to protect human lives.” To book media interviews or public appearances with Leutrell Osbourne, contact Bill Eddy at Third Time Communications, (678) 571-2967 or eddy@darkoperativs.com.

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Leutrell "Mike" Osborne, Sr.

During the Cold War, CIA field officers went to embassy cocktail parties, trade shows and cultural exchanges looking for susceptible Soviets who might be persuaded to provide information to Washington. "The one objective that I am working deals with increasing justice on planet Earth. That is, I truly believe I am a part of the legacy of Ella Grisby Motley, my mother and that we, my brothers and sisters, are involved in improving the righteousness, justice and peace on planet Earth."

Leutrell M. Osborne, Sr. (1939-) is an African-American veteran of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and widely-recognized as a leading authority on transnational and national crimes especially related to nation-state Covert Action intelligence operations. Known in the CIA as "Mike," Mr. Osborne has appeared on CNN and BET, had numerous speaking engagements, appeared on several radio shows and is author of the espionage thrillers “Dark Operative Series," first of which is The Black Man in the CIA. Mr. Osborne has re-opened the assassination investigation on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., CIA, FBI "dirty tricks," global drug trade, 9/11, and COINTELPRO are high priority targets of interest for him. His main theme is that the one percent of the people who control 40% of the world’s wealth includes some people who belong to organized crime.

One of the themes of the book ''Black Man In The CIA'' (BMCIA) is that the U.S. has to change method of operating (MOD) in 16 agencies of the Intelligence Community because law enforcing seldom nets the desired results. In simple language, the U.S. Government should only perform genuine foreign intelligence collections and counter intelligence operations while reducing Covert Action intelligence operations and closely monitoring those that are authorized on both the transnational and national fronts. Bad news about CIA and USA's Intelligence Community generally comes from operations out of the Covert Action intelligence operations, which are paramilitary. We are caught in the "matrix of a cultural illusion." The Cultural Illusion is his euphemism for domestic and transnational Covert Action Intelligence operations, including the "COINTEL FACTOR."

During his 27 years of service as a CIA Case Officer and Communications Security Officer, “Mike”, as he was known by his colleagues and contacts throughout the intelligence community, served in over 30 countries where the CIA agents, spies and assets on 3 continents in what historians and so-called espionage experts have termed the most fertile period of domestic and international spying of the modern era.As a CIA Case Officer from 1957-1984, Mr. Osborne desegregated two management components in the CIA: the Near East Asian Division of the Directorate of Operations (DO) and the Communications Security (COMSEC) Division of the Office of Communications in the Directorate of Administration. Also Mr. Osborne is the only Clandestine Service Officer in the history of CIA who also served six years in COMSEC after he was a Case Officer. This significant assignment was because experience enabled him to perform change management while he performed security, safety and health assignments in the U.S. and abroad. As a CIA Case Officer, Mr. Osborne achieved exceptional experience as a Counter Intelligence Officer while performing counter terrorists assignments against Latin American, Arab, and Muslim nationals.

The CIA assigned him to the Communications Security (ComSec) Division after he became a Case Officer where he lead quality teams that re-invented processes improving intelligence collection, support and production in the Agency and the intelligence community.

He continues to perform threat analysis for both public and private sector clients, and is considered a counter-terrorism expert. This fact was underscored after the 9/11 attacks when he was called to appear with key members of Congress to provide insight into the attacks.

In l989, “Mike” obtained several temporary federal appointments and eventually secured a position at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for five years. Given his unique background one may say that he continued in service to his government, accepting a position at OPM where he performed as Transformation Management Officer (code named “Change Agent”).

The position at OPM was very familiar to him – one in which he served for six years in the CIA’s ComSec Division, where he re-invented processes and significantly impacted/changed practices of the intelligence community cultivating communications security. While at OPM, Mr. Osborne oversaw programs of the Small Business Administration (SBA), vociferously advocating for small business participation in government contracting under PL 95-507. During his OPM tenure, he also served as Chair of the Office of Small Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) Council, coordinating the Federal Government small business programs.

After 31 total years of Federal Government service, he retired and turned his attention to the private sector. Currently, he is the founder and President of The Osborne Group (TOG) that provides security consulting and business re-engineering consulting to enterprises seeking to do business with the Federal Government.

2006- Present - founder, The Osborne Group (TOG) which is now the name for the consulting company that operated under various Paragon names. The focus remains identifying analyzing, and resolving clients issues especially in business and security with specific emphasis on Marketing to the Government (MTG).

1994 - 2006 - founder, Paragon Security Agency (PSA)Mr. Osborne founded PSA after retirement from the Federal Government. He served as Chief Security Planner for the firm, enabling the company to develop client projects consisting of system and process improvement and focused marketing to the Federal Government.

He resides in Annapolis, MD. with his wife. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Mr. Osborne is an active community member in Washington D.C. and Anne Arundel County Maryland. His past and present professional affiliations include:

"I am a spirit in human form on planet earth this time as aLeutrell Mike Osborne, Sr. My mission is justice, righteousness and peace. Keyword: Karma"Young Leutrell was interested in becoming a spy by age 12 because his mother worked in a clerical position at the CIA. Maybe that’s why his keyword is “karma”. By 17 his course was set and he began special photography courses. He finished college and continued to acquire core skills, such as four foreign languages. He became a spy supervisor: “In the CIA Operations Directorate, that's where all of the case officers are. They are the supervisors of CIA spies. Everything is set around basically case officers because they are the kings. And they are the people in the agency who make things happen, as far as collecting intelligence and running what we call clandestine operations.”

As "The Spy Who Came Out of the Cold War," Osborne offers bold advice for would-be managers of spies: “Don't be afraid and don't take no for an answer. Don't let anybody tell you can't learn enough language, you don't know how to do things. All of those things that people tell you, don't believe it. Because it is people trying to keep you out of the good stuff.”

A highlight of Osborne’s life was attending the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. while he was stationed in Europe in 1964. Just 25, he spent a precious hour with the civil rights leader. Later, Osborne found disturbing new details investigating King's untimely death, identifying his attackers as CIA agents or at least "back pocket" agents. This became the inspiration for his MARTIN LUTHER KING TRUTH COMMITTEE, which includes many prominent investigators who are experts on this issue. When Osborne learned of the deaths of many associated with the investigation of King such as two judges and six FBI Special Agents (SAs), Osborne said, "There has to be fire where there is smoke."

"In simple language the US Government need to increase oversight on Covert Action intelligence operations because so many fail and backfire."

See Gary Revel's "They Slew the Dreamer"

"The Reverend King has been shot." April 4, 1968, Memphis Police Dispatch announces in this live recording. HSCA Chief-Counsel then introduces himself to James Earl Ray inside the walls of Brushy Mountain Prison. Gary Revel sings his song that uncovers the MLK assassination with the pictures of Martin and those who were most responsible for the murder; Lyndon Baines Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, Vito Genovese, Santo Trafficante Jr., Sam Giancana, Meyer Lansky, Joseph Colombo, Frank Costello, Don Carlo Gambino, Joseph Bonnano, Paul Castellano, Carlos Marcello, Dealy Plaza Tramps and the CIA's E. Howard Hunt. (Vito Genovese is pictured twice). The spell-binding story of Gary's investigation is coming to film, look for it at a theater near you. http://youtube.com/watch?v=KjL0EyOPe4I

Appearances

2012

Martin Luther King Day speaking engagement: Norfolk Naval Station was January 12, 2012 at 10:30 am.